Content analysis of the dreams of a medical intuitive

Many individuals have had dreams accurately describing their own health problems before any medical diagnosis. Some have even had accurate dreams depicting the health problems of others.

To examine the characteristics of dreams of a practicing medical intuitive. It was hoped to describe in more detail, the differences between her health related dreams and her "normal" or non-health dreams. Her health dreams were all chosen because they successfully described a malady before it was diagnosed by any medical professional.

Ninety dreams (30 normal, 30 self health related, 30 for others) were content analyzed using the online Hall-Van de Castle Content Analysis scoring system.

The non-health dreams of the dreamer were significantly longer than the two samples of health dreams (p < .001). The two sets of health dreams did not differ in report length. In terms of content, the health dreams, either for the dreamer herself, or for a patient were composed of precise literal references and descriptions about the nature of the health problem. While there was also some symbolism in a few of these dreams, the symbols were considered very easy to interpret.

While these dreams were all collected from a very experienced, talented medical intuitive, their structure may be similar to the dreams of many individuals. It would be of value to collect and examine the dreams from a number of individuals that have had health dreams in the course of solving their own health problems.